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“My first two
horses did well
enough to get me
hooked on racing.
After that I was ruined
for life!”
— Dr. Joe Rogers
“Although there are breeding records from earlier days, one of the first horses of my father’s that I remember talk about was King Of Spades which he had in 1905. I particularly remember Spades because I later re-used the name on one of my horses.”
The second King Of Spades won the 1970 renewal of the Rokeby Bo^jLfor Thomas McKoy Jr., with Dr. Rogers in the irons. This was the fifth of seven Rokeby Bowl wins for Dr. Rogers as an owner or rider.
King Of Spades was later bought back by Dr. Rogers and won the 1972 running of the Virginia Gold Cup. The gallant horse, along with several more of Dr. Rogers’ horses, rests in a small hilltop graveyard on the family’s estate at Hamilton.
Although he doesn’t like to admit it, Dr. Rogers got his start at the innocent age of 11, racing ponies at local county fairs.
“I don’t think my mother liked me doing that,” he says with a laugh.
At 18, Dr. Rogers was given Happy Slave, his first horse, by his father.
“It was a colt which had thoroughpin (fluid below the rear ‘knee joint), but I did not know that,” Dr.
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